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  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Sergeant John Jones in Basra on 20 November 2005. Sergeant Jones, from 1st Battalion The Royal Regiment of Fusiliers, died as a result of injuri…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Lance Corporal Steven Sherwood, of the 1st Battalion, The Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry. Lance Corporal Sherwood…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the death of Sergeant Chris Hickey of the 1st Battalion the Coldstream Guards. Sergeant Hickey died as a result of injuries sustained from a roadside bomb at…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm that the body of Captain Ken Masters was discovered in his accommodation in Waterloo Lines, Basra, Iraq on Saturday 15 October 2005.

  • With great sadness and regret, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the name of a British Army Officer killed in an attack in Iraq on 11 September 2005.

  • With deepest regret, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed the names of Fusilier Donal Anthony Meade and Fusilier Stephen Robert Manning, who died in Iraq on 5 September 2005.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the deaths of Second Lieutenant Richard Shearer, Private Leon Spicer and Private Phillip Hewett, all of 1st Battalion The Staffordshire Regiment, who died from …

  • It is with profound regret that the Ministry of Defence must announce the death of Signaller Paul William Didsbury, aged 18, of 21 Signal Regiment (Air Support), currently serving as part of the Joint Helicopter Force Iraq.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death of Lance Corporal Alan Brackenbury of The King's Royal Hussars, in the early hours of Sunday 29 May 2005, during an incident to the South of…

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the death in Iraq of Guardsman Anthony James Wakefield during the early hours of 2 May 2005.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Mark Stephen Dobson of B (Green Howards) Company, The Tyne-Tees Regiment, was found dead in his accommodation at Basrah Air Station on 28 March …

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm the deaths of ten UK Service personnel following the loss of an RAF C-130K Hercules aircraft over Iraq on 30 January 2005.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Sergeant Paul Connolly was found dead from a gunshot wound within the confines of Shaibah Logistic Base on 26 December 2004.

  • It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Acting Chief Petty Officer Simon Roger Owen died while serving in HMS Chatham on 17 December 2004, while the ship was on patrol in the Gulf.

  • It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Pita Tukutukuwaqa of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch died on 8 November 2004 when his Warrior armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside improvis…

  • 3 British soldiers were killed, and others injured, in a suicide car-bomb attack on a vehicle check point within the Black Watch area of operations on Thursday 4 November 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Staff Sergeant Denise Michelle Rose of the Royal Military Police's Special Investigation Branch was found dead from a gunshot wound at the Army base…

  • It is with great regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Private Kevin Thomas McHale of the 1st Battalion The Black Watch died in a road traffic accident in North Babil province on 29 October 2004.

  • It is with very deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that two British soldiers died following the ambush of a military convoy south-west of Basrah on Tuesday 28 September 2004.

  • It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence has to confirm that Fusilier Stephen Jones died in a road traffic accident south of Al Amarah on 10 September 2004.